Re: troubleshooting dns....
Rudy Amid (rudy@hcl.com)
Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:20:54 -0400 (EDT)
An excerpt from Leo Savage message:
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Michael C. Nerone wrote:
>
> > We've seen something similar from time to time with Netscape and Trumpet
> > Winsock. When the user runs Netscape, they immediately get a window that
> > says "Unable to locate host." If they exit and rerun it, same thing.
> > Even rebooting doesn't fix it --- *BUT* --- when the error pops up, if the
> > user just hits "OK" and "RELOAD" it works fine. And the problem seems to
> > go away. Future invocations of Netscape do NOT produce the error. Seems
> > like a strange Netscape bug to me, but it's an easy fix. Maybe this is
> > what you're seeing.
>
> We've seen this happen with Netscape and Chameleon winsock, so I'm
> inclined to think it's Netscape. The occasional user gets an "Unable to
> locate host" message ONCE when starting Netscape, which then happens
> consistently for a week or two, and then it stops happening.
I'm getting the same problems with Windows 95 slip/ppp and the 32bit 1.2N.
It happens rather inconsitently though, so I might put the blame on Netscape
timing out too soon when traffic is high.
> Very strange.
Indeed.
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